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Sort of. It's like being in the world's biggest ever lottery syndicate, except if you pick the winning numbers it gets sent to a specific other person who's we
by headmelted 5y ago
Sort of.
It's like being in the world's biggest ever lottery syndicate, except if you pick the winning numbers it gets sent to a specific other person who's website you're on. If someone, eventually, hits the jackpot then the owner of playxo.com is going to be very, very rich.
I mean, I'd assume, cynically.
The chances of anyone hitting a green wallet are still incredibly narrow, but you never know.
- vmception 5y agoIt get sent to your own private key which everyone else would also have trouble finding. Playxo.com wouldn't get anything out of it, anyone and everyone can have all the private keys of everyone else, playxo's operator or server wouldn't know which private key things are going to, and neither would any other human.
- stavros 5y agoPlayxo.com is showing you if a wallet has a balance. Before it ever shows you anything, it can clear that wallet, and that's that.
- 1phone1 5y ago[dead]
- vmception 5y agobut anyone can do that. you don't need an API to tell you if the address has a balance if you have the private key, you just check your own copy of the blockchain.... just like they are doing... fgsfds
- stavros 5y agoWhen you visit a page, they generate all the private keys on the page and check for balances. If you happen upon a key that actually has a balance, they will clean it out before you can.
- vmception 5y agowell, very fun way to add randomness and entropy to checking. it plays on the maliciousness of everyone, by making them think the user has an edge.
- patrickthebold 5y agoI kind of doubt it, the browser makes a request to blockchain.info to check the balances. If they wanted to do what you are saying they'd make that request somewhere one the backend.
- sli 5y agoWell... yeah? It would make no sense to try and do that on the frontend.